desertcheeseman
I like dessert cheese too
A BBW friend of mine just called me up with a horrible story. She just went through the drive through at a brand-new Burger King that just opened up in her town. When she pulled up to the window to receive her meal, the girl working the window gawked at her for several seconds, mouth open wide in shock, like she had never seen a BBW before in her life. And when my friend started pulling away, she shouted "Hey, look at that fat bitch" and apparently several other employees looked at her and started laughing. She called me in tears about the incident, and while I did my best to calm her down, I wish I could have done something more for her. The thing about it is, my friend isn't all that fat. She is tall and curvy and possibly 300 pounds at the very most. And the woman doing the harassing was also overweight... and even though my friend lives in the Deep South and BBWs are far from uncommon there, the employee looked and reacted like my friend was some kind of circus freak. I tried contacting the store manager but the best I could get out of him was a half-hearted "we'll look into it." Is there anything I can do? Would contacting Burger King's corporate office or the media accomplish anything? Have any of you been in a situation like this? How do you encourage a friend who has had her self-esteem vaporized by a callous, careless food service worker?
